Josh Metnick

Strategic Advisor @ DMG Blockchain Solutions

Country

City

United States

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Research and Development (R&D)

Experience

Strategic Advisor

DMG Blockchain Solutions

2025-7 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Chief Executive Officer

Navier, Inc.

2017-11 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Working on 100MW-1GW+ scale high density compute facilities.

VP R&D

Raise

2015-9 - 2016-10 · 1 yr 2 mos

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Oversaw early EVM development team working on anti-fraud and programmable gift cards for the payment space using blockchains. Led R&D team to several dozen patents.

CTO

Chicago Sun-Times

2013-5 - 2014-9 · 1 yr 5 mos

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Attempted a Bitcoin overhaul of one of the nation's oldest newspapers in 2013-2014. Converted legacy data centers to Bitcoin mines, replaced credit card paywalls with BTC paywalls, implemented direct-purchase media capabilities with BTC, etc. An idea before it's time haha. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-15761)

Chairman & CEO

Chicago.com, Inc.

2002-6 - 2013-5 · 11 yrs

Chicago

Chicago.com, Inc. was acquired by the Chicago Sun-Times parent company of the era, Wrapports: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/november-2013/michael-ferro/

Chairman & CEO

Guitar.com, Inc.

1999-2 - 2001-6 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, London

Co-founded Guitar.com, Inc. Grew to 1.5M+ unique users per month. Acquired by a combination of Weston Presidio (Paul Allen), Guitar Center & William Blair. Guitar.com is now owned and operated by Caldecott Music Group - Singapore.